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LOCKJAW

\lˈɒkd͡ʒɔː], \lˈɒkd‍ʒɔː], \l_ˈɒ_k_dʒ_ɔː]\

Definitions of LOCKJAW

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A disease by which the lower jaw is drawn up and becomes fixed or locked; tetanus.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

See Tetanus and Trimnus.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

See tetanus.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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